PC Temperature while playing Fallout 4 [SOLVED]

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So I'm not sure if this is alright but my PC is hitting temps of about 60 (70 max) degrees celsius. Is this alright for my PC?

Specs:

Geforce GTX 950 Graphics card
AMD FX-6300 Six-Core Processor
16 GB Ram

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Alright, so I installed MSI Afterburner last night, too. I closed out of MSI Afterburner and opened it back up to check the Temp. and it dropped to 40 degrees, and is now running 60 degrees again. Can somebody tell me what is going on and if I need to change something?

[casualsailor]

Originally posted by -𝓋𝒢- 𝒰𝓃𝓁𝒾𝓂𝒾𝓉𝑒𝒹:

Alright, so I installed MSI Afterburner last night, too. I closed out of MSI Afterburner and opened it back up to check the Temp. and it dropped to 40 degrees, and is now running 60 degrees again. Can somebody tell me what is going on and if I need to change something?

Did you enable "User defined fan control" in MSI Afterburner. If so, its speed curve may be ramping up your fans. This would account for cooler temps when it was running.

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Are you talking about the temperature of your graphics card (GPU) or your CPU?

60 degrees is nothing for a graphics card and is fairly common for modern games to hit 60-70 celcius under load, unless you have a liquid cooled GPU, in which case 50 degrees would likely be the max.

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Originally posted by ZM | Dr. Dro:

It's running hot because you've got a low end PC and the game is making it work very hard. Upgrading your cooling should do the trick, though on a PC the price of yours i'm not sure it's worth the effort. Just increase fan speeds.

It's not a "low end PC" considering it runs the game on Ultra at 60 FPS.

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Originally posted by Zee_:

Are you talking about the temperature of your graphics card (GPU) or your CPU?

60 degrees is nothing for a graphics card and is fairly common for modern games to hit 60-70 celcius under load, unless you have a liquid cooled GPU, in which case 50 degrees would likely be the max.

Thank you. Exactly the answer I was looking for.

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Originally posted by casualsailor:

Originally posted by -𝓋𝒢- 𝒰𝓃𝓁𝒾𝓂𝒾𝓉𝑒𝒹:

Alright, so I installed MSI Afterburner last night, too. I closed out of MSI Afterburner and opened it back up to check the Temp. and it dropped to 40 degrees, and is now running 60 degrees again. Can somebody tell me what is going on and if I need to change something?

Did you enable "User defined fan control" in MSI Afterburner. If so, its speed curve may be ramping up your fans. This would account for cooler temps when it was running.

Thanks, I can try that.

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Originally posted by ZM | Dr. Dro:

Originally posted by -𝓋𝒢- 𝒰𝓃𝓁𝒾𝓂𝒾𝓉𝑒𝒹:

It's not a "low end PC" considering it runs the game on Ultra at 60 FPS.

Ultra 60 fps on a 950? Even if that card did do it, it would be overworked to the balls to do that. So yes, low end PC.

Actually it's not, but alright bud. Keep believing that.

My computer is most definitely a high end PC.

[casualsailor]

Originally posted by -𝓋𝒢- 𝒰𝓃𝓁𝒾𝓂𝒾𝓉𝑒𝒹:

Originally posted by casualsailor:

Did you enable "User defined fan control" in MSI Afterburner. If so, its speed curve may be ramping up your fans. This would account for cooler temps when it was running.

Thanks, I can try that.

You can set this curve yourself. If you don't mind the noise just be agressive. But you don't really want to run your fans at 85% constantly as this will wear your fans out prematurely.

Most GPUS start to throttle back or the driver will crash around 90 C.

So, I typically set my fans to correspond with my temps. So, 60 C = 60%, 70 C = 70%, 80 C = 80% and > 80C = 85%. This works for me and I can usually hold my temps about 70 C even with other games that really tax my GPU.

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Originally posted by casualsailor:

Originally posted by -𝓋𝒢- 𝒰𝓃𝓁𝒾𝓂𝒾𝓉𝑒𝒹:

Thanks, I can try that.

You can set this curve yourself. If you don't mind the noise just be agressive. But you don't really want to run your fans at 85% constantly as this will wear your fans out prematurely.

Most GPUS start to throttle back or the driver will crash around 90 C.

So, I typically set my fans to correspond with my temps. So, 60 C = 60%, 70 C = 70%, 80 C = 80% and > 80C = 85%. This works for me and I can usually hold my temps about 70 C even with other games that really tax my GPU.

I've looked into it and my PC is actually limited at 80, so MSI afterburner will alert me when it reaches 80. And it's kinda funny... my PC is running at 24 degrees C right now with the game running in the background as I type this. I don't know what the issue was but restarting afterburner seemed to do the trick. Thank you for the help, though. I certainly will remember this if I have any more temp. issues.

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[casualsailor]

Originally posted by ZM | Dr. Dro:

Originally posted by casualsailor:

You can set this curve yourself. If you don't mind the noise just be agressive. But you don't really want to run your fans at 85% constantly as this will wear your fans out prematurely.

Most GPUS start to throttle back or the driver will crash around 90 C.

So, I typically set my fans to correspond with my temps. So, 60 C = 60%, 70 C = 70%, 80 C = 80% and > 80C = 85%. This works for me and I can usually hold my temps about 70 C even with other games that really tax my GPU.

Nope, GPU fans do not wear out. I've got a GTX 480 that I happen to own since June 2010 or so and it has always been run with the fan speeds at maximum, it still works perfectly well. The only problem is the noise.

You remind me of a conversation I had with management. We had a mirrored drive in a server fail and they wanted to wait until a maintence window to replace it. When they asked me what the chances were that the other drive would fail my answer was, "100%. It's only a matter of time. And the longer you run without redundency the more risk you assume."

I'm sorry but I'm going to disagree you. Fans have bearings and bearings wear. Every fan will eventually fail when it has spun for a sufficient number of revolutions. Running your fans at a constant 85% means they will fail long before necessary than if you allow them to throttle up and down.

This wear may not cause the fan to fail before you decide to upgrade to a new card. But it will eventually fail.

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Yeah, the max it hit was 70 degrees celsius, but after restarting it hasn't gone above 60.

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As someone who had a FX-6300 OC to 4.3 GHz playing FO4 I'm going to chip in.

At launch with GTX 760 2Gb I played on High setting 1080p, shadow distance to low and average 45 fps with reshade and ENB. Lots of graphics mods but only 2K. Most of the time would be solid 60 fps in building, low 20 outside in Boston, high 40 outside elsewhere. Coverga about 15 fps.

Mid 2016 I switched to GTX1060 6Gb , maintained 50 fps average on ultra shadow distance to low. Solid 60 in building, 30 AVG in Boston, 50 elsewhere and 25 fps at Coverga. Using 4K texture mods.

I recently upgraded to i7-6700k OC to 4.5 GHz. Have to reinstall and see how well it runs. Overall it's normal to see your CPU running high temp if load is heavy, with the new i7 I see it's 60 degree most of the time I'm playing Black Desert Online which is a demanding game, and of course it was the OC as well. It's Summer here in Australia doesn't help.

[casualsailor]

Originally posted by ZM | Dr. Dro:

Originally posted by casualsailor:

I'm sorry but I'm going to disagree you. Fans have bearings and bearings wear. Every fan will eventually fail when it has spun for a sufficient number of revolutions. Running your fans at a constant 85% means they will fail long before necessary than if you allow them to throttle up and down.

This wear may not cause the fan to fail before you decide to upgrade to a new card. But it will eventually fail.

Yes, bearings do wear, not going to dispute that, but before there's any actual significance in their wearout, even if it's a very cheap sleeve bearing fan, the GPU is already old beyond support and quite possibly beyond usefulness, and that's assuming you were a very early adopter. Newer video cards like EVGA's with ACX 2.0/3.0 fans can last over 200k hours at maximum speed and still be like new. Remember that these video cards come with a capped BIOS - the fan speed won't be truly maxed out until you edit the BIOS and remove this limitation. Even if you run the fans at their maximum rated speed they still have to work for their rated hours, and that's 50,000 hours even on the cheapest sleeve bearing fans. That's over 2083 days, so still a good 6 years running - that means 6 years of continuous operation - at their maximum capacity at their rated temperature.

So you agree that fans wear out. That was all that you said that I disputed.

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Originally posted by ZM | Dr. Dro:

Originally posted by casualsailor:

You can set this curve yourself. If you don't mind the noise just be agressive. But you don't really want to run your fans at 85% constantly as this will wear your fans out prematurely.

Most GPUS start to throttle back or the driver will crash around 90 C.

So, I typically set my fans to correspond with my temps. So, 60 C = 60%, 70 C = 70%, 80 C = 80% and > 80C = 85%. This works for me and I can usually hold my temps about 70 C even with other games that really tax my GPU.

Nope, GPU fans do not wear out. I've got a GTX 480 that I happen to own since June 2010 or so and it has always been run with the fan speeds at maximum, it still works perfectly well. The only problem is the noise.

Umm... when I replaced my R7 250 it was partly because by that point it was lashed together with zipties because the original fan (which held the air duct on) was dead and buried, and I'd bolted a new/old ball bearing fan to the outside of the duct (which no longer had anything to hold it on but zip ties and tape).

Took about 4 months before the original fan started buzzing and wailing. It was a clip-together ceramic bushed shaft, so I popped it apart and lubed it. That got me 2 months before all the grease flowed into the fan cup again, but the shaft snapped that time.

GPU fans can definitely bite the dust early.

EDIT: And I think it died early because it was the style of fan it was, and was mounted inverted due to motherboard orientation. It simply "leaked" all it's lube into the fan cup and started to chatter.